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Writer tables converted to plain text – difficultyInteresting EasyHack

29 February 20241 September 2025

If you copy contents from LibreOffice Writer to a plain text editor like gedit or Notepad, you will see that it does a straightforward thing: It copies the text and some basic formatting like converting bullets to ‘•’. For the Writer tables, the conversion is very simple right now: every cell is written in a separate line. (more…)

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